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Following his clerkship, Rehnquist set up a law practice in Phoenix. There he became a Goldwater conservative who opposed an integration plan for Phoenix public schools in 1967. Brought back to Washington to the Nixon Justice Department by another Phoenix lawyer, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Rehnquist was enlisted in the Administration's battle against student radicals, whom Rehnquist described in a 1969 speech as "the new barbarians." He helped devise legal grounds to round up and detain antiwar ) protesters during the 1971 May Day demonstrations. Later that year Nixon rewarded Rehnquist for his efforts by putting...
...Reagan. Mitigation is now the best hope. To this end I suggest that the wording of the award be amended to include in the title the names of some of Mr. Meese's more widely noticed predecessors in office, Republicans of course. Let this be called the Daugherty Mitchell-Kleindienst Award for Public Service. The name will have modest relevance, will admirably dilute Harvard's identification with the honor and be a thoughtful reminder of the place of Attorneys-General in our history. John Kenneth Galbraith Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus
...Teapot Dome scandal of 1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty were charged with crimes after leaving office. So were three Nixon Administration officials in the Watergate period: Attorney General John Mitchell, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans...
...Richard Kleindienst, 58, became Attorney General in June 1972 after Mitchell left Cabinet to head Nixon re-election committee. Pleaded guilty to giving false testimony to Senate Judiciary Committee about antitrust suit against ITT. Suspended sentence. Acquitted last year in home state of Arizona on twelve counts of perjury allegedly committed while representing a swindler. Arizona Supreme Court suspended him from practicing law last month. U.S. Supreme Court suspended him last week from practicing before...
...Sunday, April 29,1 was in New York when I received a phone call from Nixon at Camp David. Nearly incoherent with grief, he told me that he had just asked Haldeman and Ehrlichman to resign. Richard Kleindienst, the Attorney General, had also submitted his resignation. John Dean was being fired. The President said he needed me more than ever. He hoped I was abandoning any thought of resignation...